Apparel-coat.



No. 656,561. Patented Aug. 2|, |900.

Y D. MURPHY.

APPAREL COAT.

(Application fled May 25, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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DANIEL MURPHY, OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO FRANCIS J. REILLY, OF SAME PLACE.

APPAREL-COAT. i

SPECIFICATION forming part. of Letters Patent No. 656,561, dated August 21, 1900.

Application filed May 25, 1900.

To cir/ZZ whom it may concern/.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL MURPHY, o Richmond, in the county of I-Ienrico and State of Virginia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Coat-Sleeve and Cuff, of which the following is a specification. In the ordinary attachment of the cus to the shirt-sleeve it often happens that the cu extends down so low beyond the coat-sleeve as to cucumber the hand and look unsym' metrical or else disappears altogether within the coat-sleeve, allowing the latter to come in cont-act with the sweaty and greasy hand and losing entirely the nish and value of the cuff. My invention is designed to obviate these objections; and to that end it consists in a peculiar formation of the inner surface of the coat-sleeve and the attachment of the cuff directly to said coat-sleeve instead of the shirt-sleeve, thereby insuring a definite and invariable projection of the eu below the coat-sleeve and permitting the cus to be put on or off with the coat, as hereinafter fully described. r

Figure l is a side view of the lower part of a coat-sleeve par-tly broken away and con structed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is a view of the lower part of a coatsleeve turned wrong side out, showing the relation of the cuff to the same.

In the drawings, A represents a coat-sleeve whose inner lining is formed with a folding flap B, which is secured by a row of stitching at its upper edge to the lining and projects downwardly when in normal position. This iiap is made of the same material as the lining and has at suitable intervals around the arm buttonholes b. -On the lining of the coatsleeve below the iiap and arranged at suitable intervals around the sleeve correspon ding to the buttonholes in the flap are longitudiually-arranged strips C, also made of the same material as the lining and connected by stitching at their ends l and 2 to the sleeve and also along one of the sides 3, the other side 4 being left open and unattached. In each of these strips is worked a buttonhole c, in which a detachable button d of the collar-button form is inserted, with its base between the strip C and the coat-sleeve and its head protruding through the strip and Serial No. 17,966. (No niodel adapted to receive the buttonhole b of the folding flap B when the latter is turned down over it.

D is the cu, which is somewhat shorter than the ordinary and is formed with a nurnber of buttonholes in its upper edge corresponding to the buttons and buttonholes of the coat-sleeve. When the buttons are seated in the strips C of the sleeve and thek cuff edge is buttoned upon the heads of these buttons and the flap Bis turned down over the upper edge of the cuif and is also buttoned upon the projecting heads of the buttons, it Will be seen that the cu is firmly attached to and becomes a part of the coat-sleeve and has its edge projecting always a definite and uniform distance below the end of the sleeve. While this is the ca'se, it will be seen that the upper `end of the cuff is overlapped by the ilap, so

thatin puttingfthe coat on the fingers and cui`1band of the shirt-sleeve do not catch and hang against the upper edge of the cuff.

I am aware that a ou or inner sleeve has heretofore been attached to the inner side of a coat-sleeve, and I therefore do not claim, broadly, this idea. I do not know, however, that a coat-sleeve has been specially constructed for this purpose in the manner herein shown and described, and it forms a simple and practical means for utilizing a cuff in this way.

Having thus described my invention, what `I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, isfl., A coat-sleeve having attached to its iuner surface a transverse set of buttons and having also attached to the said sleeve just above the buttons a flap folding down and over said buttons substantially as described.

2. A coat-sleeve having attached to its inner` surface a series of trausversely-arranged buttons, and having also attached to the said sleeve just above the buttons a flap having buttonholes registering with the said buttons and arranged to fold down and over the said buttons substantially as described.

3. A coat-sleeve having attachedto its inner surface near its lower end a set of button-retaining seats, detachable buttons retained therein, and a iiap with buttonholes registering with said buttons, said flap being IOO attached to the inner lining and folding down over the buttons substantially as and for the purpose described.

4. A coat-sleeve having attached to its inner lining a series of button-retaining seats composed of longitudinal strips stitched to the lining on the three sides, and open on the fourth, and havinga buttonhole in the same, and a flap attached to lthe inner side of the sleeve above the said strips and having buttonholes registering with those of the strips substantially as described.

5. The combination of a cui having a set of buttonholes along one edge, a coat-sleeve having buttons secured to the interior thereof and fastening to the edges of the cuff, and a Iiap attached to the inner side of the sleeve above the buttons, and having buttonholes registering with the said buttons and adapted to fold down over the upper edge of the cuff and to cover and retain the same by being fastened to the buttons substantially as and for the purpose described.

ln testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DANIEL MURPHY. Witnesses:

H. S. ACKERLY, E. I. ToUEY. 

